Improvement in collar and sleeve buttons



G. B. FITTZ, Collar `and Sleeve Buttons.

No. 210,110. Patented Nov. 19,1878.

wrrqessas UNITED STATES PATENT EFICE.

GEORGE B. FITTZ, OF ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COLLAR AND SLEEVE BUTTONS.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 210,110, dated November19, 1878 application filed October 31, 1878.

To alt whom it may concern:

Beit known vthat I, GEORGE B.,F1T'rz, of Attleborough, in the county ofBristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Collar and Sleeve Buttons; and I do hereby declare thatthe following is a full, clear, and exact description of theconstruction and operation of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings, making a part of this specication, and to the lettersand igures of reference marked thereon.

This invention has relation to that class of shirt buttons or studs inwhich the two -button-plates and their shanks are detachably connectedtogether; and consists in thefconstruction and arrangement ofthe severalparts, as will be hereinafter described, and subsequently pointed out inthe claims.

In the accompanying drawing, which represents a sectional view of myinvention, Ais one of the button-plates, having connected thereto ahollow shank, B, formed at its lower end with shoulder a., around theinterior thereof. Fitting within the hollow shank B is a hollow tube, C,and around one end of said hollow tube is a coil-spring, b, one endpassing out through an opening in the under side of the button-plate A,and bent at an angle to form a spring-catch, c, the purpose of which isto engage with the side o'f the button-hole, thereby retaining thebutton-plate A in the garment or button-hole, thus obviatin g thenecessity of its removal when separating the two parts of the button orstud.

Suitably connected to the outer side of the When it is desired to detachthe two parts l ofthe button or stud, Apress uponthe cap D until thelower end ot' the tube C` presses 'against the spring d, thus forcingthe lower end thereof past the annular shoulder a, and allowing theshank B to be disconnected from the shank F.-

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

l. The plate A, with shank B, formed with shoulder a, sliding tube C,spring b, and cap D, in combination with plate E, shank F, and spring d,constructed to operate substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a button or stud, the combination, with the plate or platesthereof, of a spring-catch, c, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed by namein the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE B. FITTZ.

Witnesses:

HORACE E. DURGIN, FRANK W. Perrin.

